Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 20. (Budapest, 2001)

Mária FERENCZY: On the history of the Netsuke collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum - on the Occasion of the Publication of its Catalogue

amateur gyűjtemények kiállításának lajstroma [National Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts. The Catalogue of the Exhibition of Amateur Collections from Budapest]. Edited by Károly Csányi. Budapest, 1907 24 The description of Hopp's collection: ibid. pp. 124-129,132-158; in the second edition: pp. 130,134-163; inro and netsuke were exhibited in Display Case 28, but there were some netsuke and okimonos in Display Cases 26 and 27, among other items. 25 Art collector. Around 1898 he travelled to the East (India, China), and brought back numerous works of art. Later on, the Oriental part of this collection ended up at various places, e. g. became part of the collection of Dr Ottó Fettick (1871-1954) 26 The description of Delmár's items: ibid. pp. 98-124, in the second edition: pp. 101-126; items among other works of art listed as netsuke, as well as inrő and netsuke, were exhibited in Display Cases 19 and 21 27 See Collection Catalogue, p. 144 28 The will see HMDD: Nos. A 1200; A 1396/1. About the will and the foundation of the museum see Ferenczy Mária: "Hetvenöt éves a Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum / Seventy-five Years of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, Budapest" In: Ars Decorativa 14. (1994), pp. 65-79; Ferenczy Mária - Kineses Károly: Mandarin öszvérháton. Hopp Ferenc fényképei I Mandarin on a Mule. Ferenc Hopp and Hungarian Photography. Magyar Fotográfiai Múzeum - Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1999, especially pp. 60-64 29 Cf. the 1

st description of the Ferenc Hopp Museum entitled A Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum [Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts], written by Zoltán Felvinczi Takács, edited by the Országos Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum [Hungarian National Museum of Fine Arts]. Budapest, 1923 30 Magyar Gyűjtők és Művészetkedvelők Egyesülete. Keleti művészeti kiállítás. Szerkesztették: Csányi Károly és Felvinczi Takács Zoltán / Verein Ungarischer Sammler und Kunstliebhaber. Ausstellung Orientalischer Kunst. Bearbeitet von Karl Csányi und Zoltán Takács. [Association of Hungarian Collectors and Friends of Art. Eastern Arts Exhibition. Ed. by Károly Csányi and Zoltán Felvinczi Takács] s. a., s. L, Budapest, 1929 31 Japanese art objects: pp. 86-104, Nos. 686-844; netsuke: Nos. 800-802, 804-813, 815-817 32 Lawyer, landowner, art collector. He collected porcelain from Vienna and the East, as well as Japanese small sculptures. All of the 21 netsuke donated by him to the museum are superb works. 33 Engineer, entrepreneur, art collector, the patron of art. He collected many kind of art works, primarily paintings and Japanese small sculptures. He donated his most beautiful 25 netsuke to the museum. 34 Netsuke-like "placed object": carving for display (decoration) not for functional purposes, usually larger and more detailed than netsuke generally 35 Catalogue of Japanese Art at the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts. Report of Japanese Art Abroad project Vol. 5. Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 6. Ed. by The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, 1995.-On netsuke: Nos. 1142-1357, pp. 225-242,266-276